Logan Filmmaker James Mangold in Talks to Direct DC Studios’ Swamp Thing It’s only been a day since co-CEOs of DC Studios, James Gunn and Peter Safran, announced their first tranche of films and television shows in their new DC Universe. One of those films was the horror project, Swamp Thing, and while we got…
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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being (Telepathically) Known: Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black (Part 2) Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we continue Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black with Chapter 3. The novel was…
Fallout TV Adaptation Adds Arrow’s Katie Cassidy, Devon Sawa, and More to Cast The series adaptation of the popular video game, Fallout, is moving forward at Prime Video, and we know now a slew of additional actors that have joined Walton Goggins (Justified) and Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) in the cast. According to Deadline, the first…
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Read an Exclusive Excerpt From Shannon Chakraborty’s The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi There’s always risk in wanting to become a legend… and the price might be your very soul. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, the start of a new fantasy trilogy from author Shannon Chakraborty—publishing March 7 with…
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A Dark Fantasy Popcorn Novel: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo Now a sophomore at Yale, Galaxy “Alex” Sterns is desperate to yank Daniel Arlington, aka Darlington, out of Hell. Without getting into too much backstory, he was her supervisor at Lethe, basically the magic cops of Yale’s secret societies. Due to some very bad people…
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Brandon Sanderson’s Tress of the Emerald Sea Will Release in Bookstores on April 4th In spring 2022, Brandon Sanderson launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish four secret, brand-new novels the author had written after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The response was record-shattering. The campaign reached its goal in less than one day, and…
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Women SFF Writers of the 1980s: Dalkey to Devenport Once upon a time, there was a reviewer with a simple dream: to list every woman who wrote speculative fiction in English and debuted in the 1980s, then discuss those authors with whose work he was familiar. (Editor’s note: Please, please read the footnote, which delineates…
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The Counterworld A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never existed. Only in the hallway mirror is she able to see a glimpse of the reality she remembers having lived—the reality she wants back. Content warning for fictional depictions of childhood death…
Westworld, The Nevers, Raised by Wolves, and More Have a New Streaming Home, But Don’t Expect More Seasons Late last year it was announced that shows like Westworld, The Nevers, Raised by Wolves, and more were getting pulled from the HBO Max streaming service but that they would be moving to a new venue at…
20 Years ago today: Her Name was Columbia, the falling star that came to Texas In 1981, I watched the first NASA Space Shuttle launched and it lit my imagination. Then in 2003, I watched the Columbia rain down in fiery pieces across Texas like falling star. Oddly, the footage of the orbiter breaking…
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